Post by Vince524 on Jan 8, 2018 13:07:52 GMT -5
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An Albion College student has landed in hot water for what he says was jokes about "Antifa and ISIS hunting permits," according to the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, which is asking the college to end its investigation of the student.
“It’s vitally important that Albion drop the charges because the college makes promises in the handbook committing itself to facilitating an atmosphere of free speech,” the student, Alexander Tokie, said in a news release. “There is absolutely no way for a college to create a new wave of politically intelligent leaders when they’ve been sheltered from each and every single opinion that is different from theirs simply because of an illiberal college policy.”
School spokesman Charles Carlson said that because it involves student privacy issues, the college can't comment.
It started in September when Tokie sent an e-mail to members of the Albion College Republicans. The e-mail included comments on how to counter arguments against "white privilege."
Here's a link from FIRE
On Dec. 13, FIRE again called on Albion to drop the charges, and encouraged our supporters to contact Ditzler and express their opposition to Albion’s punitive response to student speech.
While Albion has failed to listen to reason (or even its own commitments) and drop this investigation, at least administrators have decided not to force Tokie to return to campus for a hearing during winter break.
Albion still has time to make this right. If administrators need any help deciding how best to handle Tokie’s case, they simply need to review their own handbook and the free speech promises contained within. FIRE will be watching to ensure they do.
If you think Albion College should hold itself to the commitments it makes to students, you can join FIRE in speaking out and contact Ditzler.
So here we have a student being threatened with expulsion, probably racking up legal fees, (Unless FIRE is representing them for free) for what's clearly a joke as you can't actually get hunting permits for either ANTIFA or ISIS.
While administrators initially decided to postpone Tokie’s planned Nov. 17 meeting after FIRE’s letter, they refused to drop the matter entirely, prompting FIRE to send another letter on Nov. 29.
Administrators then waited for weeks until the beginning of winter break to demand that Tokie return to campus for a hearing — which would be held in his absence if he couldn’t attend — and warned him that “[n]o reasonable interpretation of the Albion College Student Handbook would find a contract had been created between the college and an individual student.” Apparently, Albion’s administration believes that students should be “held responsible for the policies and procedures” in Albion’s handbook, but doesn’t believe that administrators should be held accountable to the free speech commitments made in that same handbook.
So the college is supposed to be allowed to do what it wants, but not the other way around.